The Life Fiber thing was kinda iffy. It just being "ALIENS" feels sorta like a copout considering the rest of the series. I don't like building up Satsuki to be a hero as well which seems to be direction they're taking.

Alright episode, still though nothing has happened in this series that people didn't see coming a mile away.

Obviously Satsuki is going to try something involving her mother next episode, fail miserably, lose everything including possibly one of her Devas and then end up tagging along with Ryuuko when she does what she couldn't do.

The only thing that surprised me was just how quick Ryuuko has surpassed Satsuki, power level wise Satsuki is completely irrelevant already.

>Recap in intro>New OP>Satsuki still gets fucked up wearing Junketsu>Satsuki sexual assault>Ryuuko blushing at all the dicks she wants>Infodump it was aliens >Satsuki hopefully going to turn against Ragyo soon>Dat adorable ED
Based Trigger

>>101241580>I don't like building up Satsuki to be a hero as well which seems to be direction they're taking

Don't worry, she's going to fail miserably next episode. She'll be a hero in the sense that she'll tag along with Ryuuko in the end where she saves the world, but Ryuuko will do all the heavy lifting. Satsuki is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things now, someone has to lose, it won't be Ragyo yet and it won't ever by Ryuuko, so that leaves only one person.

Ryuuko doesn't want Senketsu to have to wipe out his kind, Satsuki is probably about to turn on her mother and fail (probably because she doesn't want the whole species eaten by life fibers), Ryuuko and Satsuki will end up killing the first life fiber but in some way that results in a symbiosis end instead of one side wiping the other out.

Pretty good episode. Love the new OP/ED. Love the fake recap episode thing. Love the fact that they took some time to slow down and explain everything. The bit about life fibers choosing humanity and guiding their evolution seemed a little silly, like why did they go dormant? Why did Ragyou go find the original one? Hopefully these questions will be answered later.

>>101242573
I think you've got that backwards, humanity obviously benefited more from the introduction of Life Fibers than the Life Fibers did. The Life Fibers couldn't feed off of humanity properly without killing them, instead they had to go dormant and wait for them to evolve to a point in which they could actually feed on them. After this, they'll probably just fuck off to another planet. Didn't you play Chrono Trigger?

I definitely feel like there has to be more to this than what they said.

Because this episode basically set up the rest of the series in a super obvious way.

1. Ryuuko fights Tsumugu, FRIENDSHIP, Senketsu wants to fight too! Commence the travelling
1. Satsuki fights mother, gets her ass whooped
2. Ryuuko shows up, sees Ragyo, now knows she's the TRUE villain
3. Satsuki and Ryuuko team up to fight da aliums, kill Nue somewhere along the line and take back the scissor blade.
4. They fight da aliums
5. Super Mode activates, they scissor (the original life fiber)
6. Cue green explosion, people learn to live with life fibers in harmony. Ryuuko and Satsuki settle the score. FIN.

>>101242304
Since you don't seem to know what you're talking about...
Ragyou's hair color shines with all of the colors of chakra. This has been brought up before, and this episode confirms that it's no coincidence.

Honestly, you people, making such a big deal out of a mother loving her daughter. If your mothers really didn't stimulate you to orgasm in order to help you recover from a long hard day, I feel sorry for you. What the hell shitholes do you live in where such godawful parenting is allowed?

>>101242937
Go research a bit on chakras in Hinduism and Buddhism. Each of those glowing circles on Satsuki's body were related to the position of the chakras in the human body. For example in that pic, the topmost chakra is Sahasrara (which is symbolized by a thousand petal lotus and was coincidentally similar to the building Ragyou was in).

>>101243062>Hahaha, oh dear. Satsuki is actually going to try and stop Ragyou at the culture festival
It'd make no sense for her to do it.
If she's indeed planning on stopping Ragyou, why attack Nudist Beach at all?
If her aim is to bring down her mother, then wouldn't working along Nudist Beach be a better idea? The don't seem against the idea of using Life Fibers against Ragyou?

Anyhow, what are the chances Nudist Beach was based on the Sans-culottes? I know the Sans-culottes actually did wear pants, but the guys at NB also wear clothes from time to time?

So basically all humans will be absorbed into the giant life fiber ball thus causing it to become the main boss of the series.

Then after Ryuko defeats it all of the clothes in the world will stop working except for sengetsu because he made contact with the original life fiber.

The life fiber will attempt to self destruct destroying the planet but Mako (or satsuki) being imprisoned in the giant life fiber will try and lift it to space to save everybody.

As the life fiber tries to shift into another dimension (which would cause the explosion) Ryoko follows it to rescue Mako (or Satsuki). Once she is inside of it, she finds Mako in a ball of energy naked. As it turns out Ragyo wanted to become a part of the life fiber ball all along and she questions Ryuko about why she came. Ryuko claims she is here to take back the one she loves. After having a large philosophical verbal debate with Ragyo, Ragyo then tells Ryuko to prove her love. Raygo summons a creature out, the creature turns out to be Satsuki (who is completely possessed by life fibers like Ryuko was when she went nuts on Nui). The final battle of the series is Ryuko vs Satsuki. Ryuko wins, Ragyo releases Mako, her and Ryuko go back home to their loved ones together. Then this song starts playing

>>101243356
Yes, which is also why Ragyo has Nui freely running around and trespass on Satsuki's supposed sanctioned authority. Only a matter of time before Satsuki finally declares her intentions publically.

>Life Fibers can't feed off a host's nervous system directly because it kills them, which is why they adapted by becoming clothing.
Cue Ryuko being able to bond directly with Senketsu and wreck major shit, even if it's just for a minute like the whole burning hand situation.

So Satsuki is going to try and betray Ragyo when she comes to the school, all of the Student council will get jobbed and Satsuki will lose control over Junketsu. Ryuuko will then stop rampaging Satsuki and probably kill Nui at which point they will team up for the remainder of the series.

Final episode ends with each of them holding one half of the scissor blade and cutting the original life fibre.

I don't understand japan's obsession with cl sanders. I know kfc is huge there. I know because I live close to the original kfc and I sometime drive by it to watch the groups of asian people outside taking pictures.

Dude was a rapist and stole all the ideas and recipes from other people.

>We learn that Senketsu was created by her dad second episode>Ryuuko uses Senketsu the entire series to fight against other uniforms and it should be clear to her that he is REALLY GOOD AT IT>The entire time she's been really nice to him about him agreeing to help her >It's clear to her that Senketsu is a good friend and more than the sum of his parts blah blah blah>The revelation that Senketsu, the really good at fighting life fibers godrobe, was created to FIGHT LIFE FIBERS pisses Ryuuko off to the point of refusing to fight anymore with him>She's more upset about this than fucking Senketsu who has just discovered his sole reason for existing is to do the thing he's been doing

That's the single worst part of this episode. Worse than the fucking alien bit.

In case you haven't noticed Ryuuko has been driven entirely by selfish motives for the entire series. She doesn't care about stopping the Kiryuuins. She only wants to avenge her father and protect her friends when they get into trouble.

The problem is that she doesn't give a fuck about saving the world and doesn't wish to reduce Sengetsu to a tool to do it.

>>101243980
It was pretty dumb, because she didn't even ask Senketsu if he was really okay with it. She's still just boneheading her way through everything, and acting like Nudist Beach is somehow doing something different than what she is doing is pretty dumb.

I think the major problem with the episode is that the reveal that LIFE FIBERS ARE ALIUMS doesn't really further the motivations of the main cast. It's just sort of a thing off to the sides. If it was people, she's suddenly have a lot more to be hesitant towards fighting. But as is, she's been doing the equivalent of fighting leeches in the form of clothing. They're not even sentient at the low life fiber level from what we can see.

And there hasn't been much cast evolution overall. The most developer characters seem to be the Four Devas.

Ryuuko and Mako can apparently read minds, Nui appearing once again out of nowhere, that bathhouse scene, shit going straight up EVA, Ryuuko defending Senketsu like he did for her
I wasn't expecting this, but I am curious as to where this is headed. Plus the new opening is alright, I think the first had better music. The new ending is meh, maybe it will grow on me like the first, maybe it won't.

>Um wow so I was born to fight life-fibers?>NO STOP THERE IS NO WAY SENKETSU IS GOING TO FIGHT>No, it's ok act....>DO YOU HEAR HIS ANGUISHED SCREAMS HOW CAN YOU FORCE SOMEBODY TO DO THIS TO HIS OWN KIND>Ah, Ryuuko really it's ok I hav...>HOW CAN YOU BE SO HEARTLESS, HE IS NOT JUST A TOOL HE IS MY FRIEND>But I really don't mind, as a matter of...>SENKETSU WON'T FIGHT YOU WILL HAVE TO KILL ME FIRST BEFORE I PUSH SUCH A GRIM FATE ONTO MY FRIEND >Oh whatever

>>101242304
You act like she's never touched Satsuki's vagina before. Unless you believe Satsuki started changing her own diapers and bathing herself as an infant, Ragyo has definitely had her hand there before.

Obviously it's a bit weird now with Satsuki being a teenager, but ultimately they're just bathing together. It's sensual and provocative, but she's not fucking fingering her like your dumbass seems to be inferring.

>>101244223>The problem is that she doesn't give a fuck about saving the world and doesn't wish to reduce Sengetsu to a tool to do it.
That was a bit stupid. She's been using Senketsu to fight all along, but then decides not to, because "Poor Senketsu has to fight his Nakama!".

Like, fuck, she was just told the Life Fibers could end up feeding off humanity entirely, and she ended up making that decision.

Which is so out of character. I mean, it's not like Ryuuko is a boneheaded, temperamental tomboy or anything!

Anyway I don't know what you sperglords are upset about. Ryuuko is pissed because she was just told that her best friend's entire purpose for being is to be used as a weapon to kill his own kind. She's furious because she's so deeply empathetic towards Senketsu.

>>101243964
He is upset, not about fighting other life fibers, but about what life fibers are all about, just like Ryuko is upset that this is what her father's group is all about.

In any case, I seriously doubt Senketsu was created to fight life fibers like Aikuro thinks, at the very least he was created to give Ryuko the choice of what will happen to mankind and life fibers, and more than likely to pave the road to co-existence and friendship for everyone.

>>101244520>She's not a hero.
That's got nothing to do with being a hero.
Hell, last episode she told Satsuki she'd stood in her way, due to all the mayhem her actions caused.
The whole Life Fiber deal is SERIOUS mayhem waiting to occur.

>>101244466>mako is good life fiber>she followed bad life fiber to earf and is trying to prevent the plot of dreamcatcher from playing out again, so stephen king doesn't take over the world of storytelling.

>>101244525
Yep notice how it took until 4 episodes into the second cour until the plot actually progresses. What they actually meant by breakneck is that the pacing broke it's neck, became quadriplegic and then used its tongue to move forward.

>>101244571
Me too, I think she was just demonstrating the shoulder drill to Ryuko, perhaps for use against a certain someone whose remaining good eye would be extremely close to Senketsu's if the two were to oh, say, enter a sword struggle?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWwGXIjxbnI

Just watched it, that was both more dumb and less dumb then everyone had been freaking out about.

So life fibers are space aliens who've come to eat our delicious nerve energy, and COVERS is their plot to turn humanity into their food source? This is really the best you had for us? Aliens? I liked it more when everyone thought Life Fibers were Soylent Green and REVOCS were just evil and trying to take over the world. That idea seemed less retarded then what we got.

Probably gonna keep rolling with it because stupid stuff hasn't stopped me in the past, but goddamn. Sometimes creativity is just finding new ways to fail.

Am I the only one who found funny Ryuuko's "Then why won't you explain shit to me?" to Satsuki?
That was actually a good question.

Anyhow, Ragyou being a dubious individual was almost granted, but I think this episode cast some doubt on Nudist Beach as well. Part of Aikurou's explanation seemed off at times, and some parts seemed to be his input rather than Isshin's.

>>101244353>It's sensual and provocative, but she's not fucking fingering her like your dumbass seems to be inferring.
why was it drawn and animated like this though? it basically looked like a hentai orgasm.

>>101244525
Remember when /a/ thought the devas would all get entire episodes and all the 2-star club presidents would be monster of the week villains, and when the entire second half of the show was going to be about recovering senketsu, or that Nui couldn't possibly be the killer because it was too soon and too sudden?

It's not that it was hardheaded. It's that it didn't make any sense. It's such a huge stretch to feel the way she did that you could basically make her react in any way and justify it using "she's empathetic."

That's why I mentioned the blue outfit thing

Maybe she'll realize her breasts make Senketsu's forehead jut forward, making him look like he has down syndrome. She'll refuse to wear him from now on because she feels bad that her body makes him look mentally retarded. They'll solve this by having her get a breast reduction.

This completely caught me off guard with how retarded it is. I'll forget about it by next episode (or whenever the fuck they resolve it) but holy shit did that irritate me.

Remember when KlK was first airing and everyone on /a/ was bitching...>predictable anime>muh revenge plot! It's been done before!>monster of the week shit>Ryuuko powers up>Ryuuko gets beat up a bit>DONT LOSE YOUR WAY>Ryuuko wins
Good times /a/ good times.>>101244044
I thought Tsumugu hated Kamui and wanted to get rid of them, now he wants he to put it back on? what the fuck.

>>101244838
She opened up her chakra. It's kind of a big deal--it's like she just got a full-body massage and spa treatment, all within five seconds. It probably felt damn good.
Ragyo used the sex chakra. I'm not saying it wasn't sexual, but rather, the sexuality was very relevant to the story and the Kiryuin philosophy, not just an asspull.

Anyone else think Satsuki has been cautious and wary of REVOCS and life fibers the whole damn story?

>>101244824
We weren't done "cooking" yet. The fruit has ripened to perfection. It is time to feast. Now that we've matured to the state they desire, they're either gonna gobble everyone up or turn them into pod people slave hosts. Like some shit straight out of The Matrix.

>>101244824
They didn't want to kill us before and they went dormant because from what I understood they had trouble gathering food. Now they have food, time to start eating again, it'll essentially be one stars for everyone.

>>101244824
That's kind of the confusing part, is that first they explain that it doesn't want to kill humans, but then they go on about this sinister ass plan to wake up life fibers all over the planet. To do... What exactly? You just told us they don't want to hurt people because they need us, so what's the sinister endgame?

This plot dump was both unfulfilling and nonsensical. I don't think I've ever regretted having the plot of a show revealed before now.

So we've got 8 or so episodes left, how high do you think powerlevels are going to get by the final battle? Will Monkey finally get a rematch or just get jobbed again? Is Satsuki going to get raped again? Is Aikuro going to give Ryuuko the dick so she can obtain her ultimate power? IS NUI GOING TO FUCKING DIE ALREADY JESUS FUCK.

>>101245102
Her archetype has been around for at least two decades, especially within magical girl and yuri stories.
That said, characters like Homura and Satsuki are 10x what their predecessors were if you ask me.

>>101244986
You have to, you idiot. Where do you think the poop goes when a girl shits her diaper? You think you can just let the shit fester inside there? >>101245040
It's not "bad touching". Do you consider gynecologists to have fucked their patients? Sticking a finger up someone's orifice is not necessarily sexual.

>>101243236>If she's indeed planning on stopping Ragyou, why attack Nudist Beach at all?
She needed to gain her mother's trust to learn everything. Now that she knows her mother is serving evil space aliens...also the ending of the episode makes it clear she's going to go against her unless you missed that cue.

Also just because she is going to oppose her mother doesn't mean she doesn't believe in everything she's done so far. She's just going to remove the aliens/her mother.

>>101245338
it would explain the massive power boost. there are a lot of nerves in the eye. then again, the eye isn't doing anything because they are sown shut, so the life fiber may not be able to take advantage of them.

>>101245396
It still makes no sense. She seems to have been plotting against her mother even before she learned the truth about Life Fibers.
So, wouldn't working with NB be the best option?
It'd be stupid if she thinks her army of retarded 1-Stars or those shitty 2-Stars will last more than few minutes.

Her 3-Stars can't do shit against Nui either, and we're yet to see what the other girl can do, and Ragyou is granted to be off the charts in terms of power.

>>101245128
I guess. I guess my big beef is that it's an incomplete plot dump, because we sort of know 2/3rds of the picture now, but we don't know what the life fibers endgame is other then control (Maybe). What benefit do they have from taking the reigns and controlling humanity compared to just riding around on us and eating the excess energy passively? At this point it isn't even 100% clear if they're some kind of race of their own, or if they're more like planets or animals just existing on instinct.

They gave us enough plot to say "What the fuck are you kidding" without tying it off in a complete package, which we likely won't get until the very end. It also takes the plot in a direction that seems a sharp 90 degree turn from everything we've seen before and come to expect.

It's increasingly clear that Satsuki named Honnoji Academy after the real Honnoji temple, so she thinks she's Mitsuhide and that this is the setting for when she takes Ragyo's life, but Hideyoshi won't allow that to happen this time around.

>>101245480>>101245506>>101245525
The dude has shown he cares for Ryuuko, and not in the "Oh, no, My precious tool is going to get destroyed" way.
Also, by this point they should had shown him in a more evil and manipulative way for that theory to make sense.

>>101245631
It's just that scene where both sides are going down their own runways, glaring at each other, and a Ryuko vs Satsuki fight takes up a good chunk of the time. I just don't get the feeling they'll be getting along anytime soon from that.

>>101245519
She's known the truth about life fibers for a long time, remember when she tells Takarada about the "Fear of Clothing" like the fear of god?

Also Satsuki was a wide eyed cheerful girl in the episode 3 flashback, but by the time she goes to school she's her scowling self. She saw something, perhaps in that same moment she first met Junketsu.

>>101245014
Simon had to man up mainly because his story was a boys coming of age story.
Naturally Gurren Lagann reflected this through its tone and protagonist.
What with Simon just going through with what he had to do despite not wanting to, because he knew if he didn't then it would never get done.
Likewise, he also did a lot of things teenage guys do like trying to ignore his emotions.

Conversely, Ryuuko's a dumb fucking bitch right now who thinks WITH her emotions.
Take the ending of the latest episode for example. After Aikruo calmly explains everything to Ryuuko and tells her she's THE ENTIRE FUCKING HUMAN RACE's only hope, what does she do?

Throws a tantrum.

She has a hissy fit at Aikruo for what he said.
Not even thinking about why he would tell her that stuff, it's heavy stuff man I doubt Aikruo would want to shoulder that burden on anyone least of all Ryuuko.
Or how important she is to the world.

She even went as far as to put words into Senketsu's mouth and use that as an excuse to get even angrier.
Look back and notice how stunned silent he is, especially in comparison to Ryuuko.

Ryuuko's going down the path of a real women who has to realize as a person living on earth, her emotions don't actually dictate how the world functions, or how the world doesn't have to cater to her.

>>101245813
Ragyo is subscribing to the notion that humans are weak, vulnerable creatures without clothing. She uses physicality to prove her point. Also, it proves the theory that Ragyo is an enlightened being who has opened all of her chakra points.

>Film shows a mouse having life fibers inserted into it before dying>Ragyo is covered in life fiber scars
Ragyo confirmed for having life fibers infest her body and and take control of her mind to enact their plan.

>>101246079>Simon had to man up mainly because if he didn't he'd fuck everything in his life

It's not fucking reaching like a lot of sepculah in KLK, hell it's not even reaching as much as saying the girl who bleeds to get a sexier more powerful body is a metaphor for girls getting tits as they age.

>>101246119
I think that was the point of the whole thing, ragyo beforehand had a quality about her that we could root for but now it's like

Oh shit she's gendo and now it's weird and someone as obviously strong as satsuki compromising herself based on fealty is weird
Also her feeling up satsuki before this was supposed to make you think it's about junketsu, i think, so when this happened it's like "oh shit, okay"
It kicked ragyo over to overlord villan status, basically

this method of objectifying satsuki to the viewer could have honestly been done without it because it's cliché but eh whatever.

Although they say it's more pleasant for women and shit (specially cuz' we don't need that much of effort to blow our load). My girlfriend has a session once in a while, it's good for sexual issues treatment (difficulties to cum for women or quick cumming for men).

Even if you don't need it, that thing's some good shit (although expensive as fuck).

Anyway, point being, bitch ain't exactly "molesting" her own daughter. Just some indian massage technique involvint the clit made for multiple orgasming achievement. That's what I call a caring selfless mom.

>>101246621>“The tradition of eating KFC at Christmas [began] when an expat customer at the chain’s Aoyama store observed that, in a land bereft of Yuletide turkey, fried chicken was the next best thing,” wrote Japan Today. “The store’s canny manager was paying attention and passed word on to the higher-ups, leading the company to launch its ludicrously successful ‘Kurisumasu ni wa kentakkii!’ (Kentucky for Christmas!) campaign in 1974.”

>Although Japan doesn’t traditionally celebrate Christmas, KFC outlets became popular among foreigners as they couldn’t find a whole chicken or turkey elsewhere during the festive season.>The fast-food chain followed up this trend with a highly successful marketing campaign in the 1970s. Now, it suggests customers in the country should place orders up to two months in advance to meet demand.